This book analyses the punitive crime discourse in the Argentinean press during the 1990s. Fernandez Roich focusses on several features of media discourse during this time, such as: the notion that petty criminals ‘deserve to die' in reference to police brutality and killings, the phenomenon of ‘vindicators’ or how common citizens turned into ‘evil’ modern heroes in the press, and the…
This book examines Latin America's history of engagement with cosmopolitanisms as a manner of asserting a genealogy that links cultural critique in Latin America and the United States. Cosmopolitanism is crucial to any discussion of Latin America, and Latin Americanism as a discipline. Reinaldo Arenas and Diamela Eltit become nodal points to discuss a wide range of issues that include the pedag…
1. Cutting the Cloth -- 2. Invitation -- 3. Teaming Up -- 4. Saints of the Casino -- 5. Car Crash -- 6. Trip to Mexico -- 7. Don Quixote Rides Again -- 8. Searching for the Key -- 9. A Moon Shot -- 10. Visit to Campus -- 11. Confronting the Enemy -- 12. Mysteries of Money -- 13. Garbage Dream -- 14. Crash Warning -- 15. Stopping Time -- 16. Into the Mystic -- 17. Plan B -- 18. Mr. Success or Mr…
Chapter 1. Oral Dialogue and Performance -- Chapter 2. Historical Context -- Chapter 3. Space and Place -- Chapter 4. A Search for Belonging -- Chapter 5. Getting on with the Neighbours -- Chapter 6. Eating our Words: Food, Language and the Preservation of Identity -- Chapter 7. Post-Peronism and the Collapse of Community -- Chapter 8. The Festivalization of Irish Ethnicity.This book explores t…
Part I. Communities, Development and Culture -- Chapter 1. Re-thinking Community Quality of Life in Latin American Countries; Graciela Tonon -- Chapter 2. Quality of Life of the Guarani Community in South America; Lía Rodriguez de la Vega and Héctor Rodriguez -- Chapter 3. Exploring the Concept and Practices of Felicitas Publica at Lisbon University: A Community and Relational Approach to Wel…